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Mrs. Brundage is Only Woman Delegate at the BigAt the Trans-Mississippi congressmuch interest centered around Mrs. S. P. Brundage, the cattle queen of Southwest Texas. As the mistress of ranches aggregating over 100,000 acres in Webb and Dimmit and the owner of 5000 head of cattle, Mrs. I’rundag* as Mrs. Florence Shaw was last year appointed a delegate to the Denver congress by President Callan of Fort Worth of the Texas Cattle ( Raisers’ association. With character-! istic enterprise Mrs. Brundage did I not accept this appointment as an empty honor. She attended the congress and by her untiring efforts and charming personality convinced a .large majority of the congress that they would like to see something or the big country that could produce a woman who could successfully operate hud control such vast interests.Mrfe. Brundage enjoys the distinction of being the only woman delegate to the San Antonio congress, “How did I do it? How did I gain my experience? If fourteen years ol ranch life isn’t enough to give one (experience I don’t know what is. Mr • Shaw was a ranchman. He had al-■ ways been a ranchman, and practically all of our married life we spent (on the ranch. Naturally I became j familiar with every detail of ranch-1 ing and when he died what was morn j natural than that I should manage it ! myself? I formed a business partnership that has been very successful and have bought and leased between 50.000 and 00.000 acres of ranch land since Mr. Shaw's death. In addition to that I own and manage a 500-ucre farm in Dimmit county.“When I had to I just jumped In and gained the confidence of the men until they came to believe In my Judgment and arrived at the place when they were Just as willing to lend me money as they were to lend it to a man. With that Mrs. Brundage gave a girlish little laugh that told that though she might be the cattle queen of Southwest Texas, yet the responsibility of the ownership of cattle upon a thousand hills, all of which said hills she owned, did not rest so heavily upon her plump shoulders as I to take away one particle of the sheer Joy of living.Mrs. Brundage, as Mrs. Florence M. Shaw, was a potent factor in bringing the trans-Mississippi congress to San Antonio. With characteristic ivlvacitv and grn dousness Mrs. Brund-!uge worked among the other delegates for San Antonio. With a foresight born ' of observation and experience, each maverick she roped and tied, she promptly branded, “San Antonio,11910.” What mattered it that the rop- ' [ing and tying consisted simply of the ! fascination exercised by a Texas wo-iman and the branding of a silken , badge stamped with the '’brand,” It I 'on lor rdI) /\nionio.
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San Antonio Light and Gazette
San Antonio, Texas, US
Thu, Nov 24, 1910
Page 9
Full Page
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